Sentences with phrase «much about the growth»

When Buffett buys a company outright for Berkshire, he doesn't have to worry anywhere near as much about growth.

We will forever be indebted to Ishikawa for caring so much about the growth of our children.

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«Given that the decline in home prices had so much to do with the de-leveraging that was taking place on the consumer side,» a recent 10 % rise in the housing market «is a key reason for optimism about growth improving,» Marple said.

«I wouldn't worry so much about a slowdown in job growth as long as there are signs that there's a re-acceleration in broader economic activity,» Marple added.

You won't hear much on the news about the growth of a dry cleaner's down the street or a boutique hiring associates to sell children's clothing, but these are great success stories, too.

If you're serious about your future success and the growth of your business, you have to focus just as much on service as on sales.

Analysts said they weren't reading too much into what they described as a «backward - looking indicator» and were hopeful about the economic prospects given an upturn in recent indicators such as confidence and machinery orders, not to mention efforts by Japan's new government to revive growth.

The researchers concluded that since that time, boards appear to have become much more thoughtful about how they make grants to CEOs, and the growth rate of CEO pay has also tapered off.

Arguing about how to fix Twitter has been a popular parlor game in tech and media circles pretty much since the company went public in 2013 and promptly started missing its growth targets.

In 2009, angel investors want to hear you tell them about earnings growth, and the decision to invest is based on how much affinity they have for the business concept and the principal owners.

He was very adamant about maintaining slow growth at this point in Patagonia's lifecycle and said he had as much money as he'd ever want or need.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

In fact, the term «family business» says as much about Cara's values and image as it does about its ownership — a business ethic that has fuelled its success while at times hindering its growth.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

What most people never understood about Maker Studios is that much of their growth came through technology innovation and advantages on our backend that most people didn't even know about.

VCs were crawling over themselves to grab a bite of Databricks for a one main reason: In just four years, Databricks had already amassed about 500 big companies as customers, so revenue was growing, Ghodsi said, although he wouldn't indicate how much revenue the company had generated or its growth rate.

Being owned by a large company with deep pockets like eBay gives Venmo breathing room to focus on growth without having to worry so much about profits.

Behind all this banter lies a big idea: That by de-emphasizing economic growth and considering other things that people value, societies could make much better decisions about how to use their scarce resources.

«The expectation is about 10 % earnings growth this year, but it could be much lower than that,» he says.

«It's about faster growth on the corporate side and making the individual side much simpler and easier.»

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

If, as I have indicated, the U.S. growth and inflation outlooks have not changed notably, then why have expectations about U.S. monetary policy shifted so much?

There is, of course, a great deal of skepticism about the 7 % real GDP growth rate that China has reported, but we should remember that in the first quarter, nominal GDP growth was much lower, 5.8 %.

Their business model is a digital advertising business model, and the reason why Facebook and Google had more than a 90 percent share of growth in the digital advertising space last year is that they can target advertising in a way that no other site can because they have a 360 - degree view of user activity, meaning they're tracking users across the web and therefore know much more about their users than anyone else.

Also, while payrolls continue to chug along posting numbers that are about 2x of most economists BLs from a few years back, in percentage terms, their growth is decelerating, from around 2 % back in 2015 to around 1.5 % now, much as we'd expect as we close in on full employment, whatever that much - sought - after state looks like.

«I think the real key is equities are all about confidence, and... my analysis is probably based on Trump's policies toward trade and immigration, which are very much a risk to economic growth, while his other policies on tax and fiscal spending are positive for growth.

It is only when credit growth begins to decelerate much more rapidly than nominal GDP growth that we can begin to talk hopefully about China's moving in the right direction, and it is only when credit growth falls permanently below the growth rate of the economy's debt - servicing capacity that China will have adjusted.

Of course it matters to anyone who wants to understand the economic cost of the adjustment, but arguments about whether the reported data are overstated, and by how much, have become part of the bull vs bear debate about whether Chinese growth is merely slowing temporarily, and not as part of a major economic reversal of the growth model.

«There is not much the Federal Reserve can do about gas prices, at least not without derailing growth entirely, which is certainly not the right way to go,» Bernanke said.

Such a growth in interest rates should result in a market correction of about 6 percent, yet recently we have seen much more than that.

This is the same criticism made in Stephen Gordon's comments about attributing all job growth over the past eight years to the Conservative government: Much of this growth would have happened under most alternative policy scenarios.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

There is, in other words, actually quite a lot that we know and understand about the model, even if many of us seem to have forgotten much of it — including its typical weaknesses, one of the most obvious of which is the tendency for over-investment in the late stages of the miracle - growth period leading to an unsustainable increase in debt.

Listen, and you go back years and think about if you got this sort of growth, this sort of wage acceleration, that the rate of inflation would be much higher.

Energy represents about a fifth of Canada's market cap and earnings growth is very much tied to fortunes in the oil patch (nearly half of the expected 22 % earnings growth for the S&P / TSX Composite Index in 2017 flows from the energy sector, we calculate).

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

Much of the sales growth, or about 3 % per year, comes from product innovation.

For the past six months, Twitter has been selling investors on a user growth metric it didn't used to care much about: Daily active users.

Yet much of the industry's future growth will come from e-commerce, which allows companies to use customer data to learn far more about customers and meet their needs more quickly and effectively than can be done through traditional means.

It is for this reason that I have previously noted some reservations about how much monetary policy can be expected to do to boost growth with lower and lower interest rates.

Sharkey doesn't reveal much publicly about revenue or user or growth numbers, though in fairness, it's early days.

There's been a lot of excitement about the explosive growth and profitability of Bitcoin lately in the news and investing circles, but not much information on how to actually buy Bitcoin.

«The nice thing about my business and my universe is I can carve out some great ideas, where you have great earnings growth, strong GDP growth, and not have to worry so much about what the Fed lift - off is going to do»..

Post-crisis, they will not worry about the inflationary impact of growth as much.

Tax reform should be about generating as much growth as possible — not rushing legislation through before we have any idea how much growth it will produce.

«As much as there's a lot of hoopla about this increased lending and profitability, all the lending in the world is not going to matter if Treasurys are right about growth and inflation going forward given this flattening of this yield curve,» he also said on «Closing Bell.»

Nonetheless, we would not read too much more into the Fed tightening, and, while awaiting more substance on policy initiatives, we remain cautious about predictions that the US economy will soon break out of the pattern of modest growth seen in recent years.

It'd be phenomenal to keep that up, but in terms of growth, it's more about people taking action and it's like I really want to measure the results, which is like pretty impossible to do, but at the same time that's why I really like things what we're doing with the student loan debt movement, where people are reporting back with how much student loan debt they're paying off.

The Board of Directors, the members who are elected by the stockholders (the owners), has a meeting and listens to management's recommendation about how much of the profit should be reinvested in growth, how much should be used to pay down debt, how much should be used to buy back stock, and how much should be mailed to the owners.

Job growth has been solid for much of 2014, yet the stock market has been hammered over the past week over concerns about Europe's financial footing, the slowdown in China's economy and Ebola outbreaks across three continents.